History Main / BloodFromTheMouth

* Averted in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. Leon and Ashley cough blood throughout the game, but it's hardly a spoiler that neither of them die.

* Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1Iyo8KyKE "If people from anime took their bleeding serious"]]. One characters gets hit, coughs up blood, and then immediately calls off the fight and asks for an ambulance because he probably broke a rib or caused internal bleeding or something dire. The other character says that it's not serious a and to prove it punches himself gently in the stomach which causes ''him'' to cough up blood.

** In the episode Bubblevicious, [[GenkiGirl Bubbles]] is trying to prove she's hardcore, and so turns the this-episode-only-training-chamber UpToEleven. [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya After taking a significant beating]] from the simulations (somehow), she has a small trickle of blood running from her mouth (though the lighting purposefully makes this difficult to see), which she wipes off, right before [[UnstoppableRage unleashing all hell]] on the simulated monsters. BewareTheNiceOnes, [[TookALevelInBadass indeed.]]

* [[AnimationAgeGhetto Amazingly,]] this happened a few times in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

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* Many of the deaths on ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' feature this, [[JustifiedTrope particularly if respiratory or other organ trauma is involved]]. Often combined with HighPressureBlood.
* In ''Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015'', Anthony Marston is still in the middle of offending everyone in the room with his callousness over having run over two children (a huge nuisance because his license was suspended for six months) when he starts coughing up blood. He staggers around, inadvertantly knocking over Vera and spitting blood into her face, and then expires. Though a search of his room turns up cocaine, further examination shows that he was poisoned with cyanide.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** This is the first sign that something is wrong with Fred in "[[Recap/AngelS05E15AHoleInTheWorld A Hole in the World]]". In the middle of an incredibly sweet scene in what has been until now a mostly light-hearted episode, she starts coughing up blood, sending Lorne and Wesley into panic mode, and giving the audience a severe case of MoodWhiplash. She dies at the end of the episode.
** Subverted in "[[Recap/AngelS05E22NotFadeAway Not Fade Away]]". Angel warns the BigBad might retaliate against their people. Cut to his secretary Harmony sprawled out with blood coming from her mouth. Harmony is a vampire however, so a BedmateReveal shows she's just sharing a cup of blood with a lover...who happens to be TheDragon of the BigBad in question.
* ''Series/TheBarrier'' uses this to show that a character who just got shot got a fatal wound.
* Sweets when he dies after getting blunt force trauma to the abdomen on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He’s bleeding from the mouth when Booth and Brennan get to him.
* Subverted in ''Series/BreakingBad''. At first it seems to demonstrate that Walter's lung cancer is getting worse which convinces him that he needs to step up his meth production to make enough money for his family after he's gone. However, it turns out later that his cancer is actually in remission and the blood he was coughing up was the result of an (easily treatable) tear in his esophagus.
* In ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', Dr Turner and the nurses don't realize that there's a TB epidemic starting in Poplar until one patient at the maternity clinic begins coughing up blood during her appointment.
* Endemic to ChineseSeries. Generally it's just visual shorthand for "this character has been injured or poisoned" and doesn't necessarily mean an injury is serious or fatal.
** In ''Series/ChinesePaladin'', Ling'er bleeds from the mouth after her HeroicSacrifice. Unlike most examples, there is a ''lot'' of blood involved, and it gets very messy very quickly.
* In the last episode of ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'', Radiguet's otherwise-unstoppable OneWingedAngel form is impaled through a [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak spot]] on its back, and blood starts pouring from the mouth of the human face that's still there on his torso. Ya don't see ''that'' in Power Rangers..
* In ''Series/TheCityHunter'', Young-ju is left drooling blood after a fatal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. In this case, however, the blood from the mouth is clearly from superficial wounds, and the least of his problems.
* In ''Series/CriminalMinds,'' when Reid contracted Anthrax he began coughing up blood when he took a turn for the worse.
* Warrick's death on ''Series/{{CSI}}''. Of course, he was bleeding from lots of other places too.
* In the eight season of ''Series/DeadliestCatch'', Captain Phil Harris, found himself coughing blood after getting a cracked rib in a nasty storm. It turns out to be from a blood clot in the lung.
* Dexter's ex-girlfriend Lila at the end of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'''s second season. Dexter himself knifed her, putting her down because she fit his code.
* Caroline's boyfriend, in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''.
* Would happen a couple of time to someone in ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'' after a particularly vicious beatdown.
* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'':
** The farmer suffering from dropsy of the heart.
** In Series 6, Robert ''projectile vomits'' blood when his stomach ulcer burst. It is immediately dubbed the most shocking scene in the series.
* ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'': In "Coda", Inspector Thursday starts coughing up blood just before he goes to make what might be his last stand against a gang of bank robbers. He then coughs up [[spoiler:the bullet fragment that had been lodged in his lung]].
* ''Series/{{ER}}'':
** At the beginning of Season 15, one of the first signs that something is seriously wrong with Greg is when he starts spitting up blood.
** Another, earlier episode had Carter going to someone's house trying to track down a patient. He almost tripped trying to back away from a woman who was coughing up blood (she had TB, he didn't want to get it).
* In ''Series/TheEvent'', blood from the mouth, eyes, and nose was the first sign that the passengers of flight 514 had been infected with some unknown agent by their HumanAlien captors.
* ''Series/FatalAttractions2010'' had a woman gotten bitten by one of her pet snakes and had her throwing up blood everywhere since snake venom makes you bleed more.
* The Hands of Blue on ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' carry sonic devices that kill people by causing profuse bleeding from the mouth. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath And eyes... and nose... and ears... and fingernails...]]
* From an episode of ''Forensic Files'', where a teenager has killed his father [[note]] Only the 911 transcript was shown, so it's possible the body was right next to the door[[/note]]:
-->'''Killer:''' I think he's dead! I see blood around his mouth!\\
'''911 Operator:''' Okay, where is he?\\
'''Killer:''' He's in the bedroom and the door's locked! I can't get in!\\
'''911 Operator:''' Let me get this straight: The door is locked but you can see the blood around his mouth...?
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Usually restricted to {{justified|Trope}} cases where characters have suffered respiratory injuries, such as Ser Hugh, Lommy, and Polliver who are all stabbed in the throat and Jeor Mormont who is stabbing the back, presumably finding a lung. Not to mention the characters who die from blades entering or exiting via the mouth itself. Victims of poisoning tend to play it straight, however. Rhaegar Targaryen died of internal injuries thanks to Robert channeling all his hate on a single smash of his iconic weapon.
* ''Series/MyCountryTheNewAge'':
** Seol's illness makes her cough up blood.
** Blood spurts from Seon-ho's mouth when he's fatally injured.
* ''Series/PiliFantasyWarOfDragons:'' the go to for showing an injured character is for them to spit or vomit up blood on occasion due to combat injury, internal injury, ''mystical'' injury, and the like. Understandable given the characters all being ''hand puppets'', so conventional bleeding from wounds is harder to stage, though it does happen (albeit less frequently).
* In ''Series/ThreeKingdoms'', this is the main indicator of illness, severe injury, poisoning, shock, and every other ailment that results in a character collapsing or dying shortly afterward.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'':
** Derek, after getting claw-stabbed in the back by an Alpha Peter Hale.
** Scott, after being shot by Kate.
* Parodied in the ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' episode "Combat". Mike [[TakingTheBullet takes a paintball]] for Tim, and starts ''coughing up paint''. Probably not for the first time; before the game starts, Tim is lecturing Mike not to take things too seriously and get himself banned again. One of the things he tells him is "not to eat the paintballs".
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': Several named characters die this way on this show.
** When Clayton and Simpson duel to death, at first the villainous Simpson collapses and Clayton appears uninjured, but then a trickle of blood comes from his mouth and it turns out he's been fatally shot.
** Lt. Eccleston in "The Even Chance". It's a variation of this trope since the bleeding doesn't seem to be internal but he was either hurt in his mouth or his lips were badly cut. However, visually, it's definitely Blood from the Mouth.
** Archie Kennedy is shot in "Retribution" and he tries to [[SecretStabWound hide his wound from his friend Horatio]] to spare his feelings. The MortalWoundReveal and The Blood from the Mouth tell the audience that he is doomed. He lasts long enough to perform a HeroicSacrifice, however.
** Another instance of KillTheCutie from "Retribution": Mr Midshipman Wellard dies a heroic death, [[FaceDeathWithDignity facing death with dignity]]. Before that, he kills some of their Spanish enemies, but is shot and Blood from the Mouth indicates that he is not going to make it. He manages to confess a possibly important secret to Gunner Hobbs.
** Jack Hammond, a rather hopeless Midshipman, is shot at the end of "Loyalty", [[RedemptionEqualsDeath just as he was proving himself brave and worthy]]. Some blood comes out of his mouth, he has a heart-wrenching dialogue with his uncle, his courage is commended, and that's the end for Jack Hammond.
* In ''Series/{{House}}'' of course, the list of people who don't spew blood is shorter than the list of people who do.
* Played hilariously UpToEleven and CrossesTheLineTwice in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' in an episode where Charlie is masquerading as a cowboy with tuberculosis. In order to sell the disguise, he swallows "Like a million of those little blood capsules", hoping to cough up blood and impress the girl he's with. However, he gets sick and proceeds to VOMIT (fake) BLOOD all over her. Bonus points for trying to pass it off as "A touch of consumption".
* ''Franchise/KamenRider''
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'':
*** The dying Shingo Izumi has blood pouring from his mouth - though he's kept alive via a PuppeteerParasite taking over shortly afterwards and spends the rest of the story in coma.
*** Later, Akira Date spits up blood after being injured by the Greeed, but he survives ''and'' is far less badly wounded than Shingo was. The claims of his death were greatly exagerrated.
** In ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'', Kota bleeds from the mouth during his first battle with the Byakko Inves. It's the cosmetic sort, so he is okay.
** This happens to Chase in ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' spin-off movie after [[ItMakesSenseInContext he stabs himself in chest]]. Only the fact that spin-off movies are not primarily marketed to children allowed for so much blood to be shown. The freakier part is that Chase is an android and shouldn't be bleeding at all.
** Using Proto Bang Bang Shooting gashat does this to both early users in ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' prequel Kamen Rider Snipe: Episode Zero. Taiga coughs up blood every so often while using the gashat, pointing to his deteriorationg physical state. Likewise, brushing it off no matter what points to his deteriorating mental state.
*** Oh yeah, and let's not forget what happens when Graphite slams him with a finishing move punch at point-blank range. He's so badly injured that he needs a surgery to even have a chance at surviving. Given that Ex-Aid is a medical show at least part of the time, his condition is explained in major detail. It's a wonder he survived, let alone was able to return to the fight as quickly as he did. Though admittedly, he did have a very skilled surgeon attending to him, along with a warm-hearted pediatrician and a very dedicated younger sister figure.
** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'''s opening sequence shows Geiz Myoukouin bleeding from the mouth after a battle. It's cosmetic sort, so he is okay. Unlike when he started using Geiz Revive, which made him bleed from nose, ears or eyes after [[CastFromHitPoints each use]].
* Providing proof that being a Creator/JamieBamber fangirl means a hard, hard life, ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' sent off Matt Devlin in nearly the exact same manner as his character Archie Kennedy from ''Hornblower'' (right down to the HeroicSacrifice). The last seen of him on screen in "Deal", he's bleeding from the mouth (and elsewhere); in the beginning of the next episode, "Survivor's Guilt", he is mentioned to have died of his wounds.
* In the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' season 5 finale, this happens to both Jacob and Juliet.
** And in Season 6 this is what prompts Richard to get some real help for his wife. Instead of saving his wife, he ends up accidentally killing the doctor, Isabella still dies and things go FromBadToWorse from there on.
* The ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Malcolm Holds His Tongue" has Malcolm keep his opinions to himself for once, but the stupidity of the basketball team proves too much for him to handle, and he suffers a peptic ulcer, throwing up blood on the coach's shirt.
* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint", the disfigured prostitute tells how her father eventually coughed up blood after a prolonged illness and promptly died in a river.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': In the "Church Police" sketch, a husband (Eric Idle) and wife (Terry Jones) bicker over dinner:
-->'''EI:''' What kind of fish you got that isn't jugged?\\
'''TJ:''' Rabbit!\\
'''EI:''' What, rabbit ''fish''?\\
'''TJ:''' Err, yes. It's got fins.\\
'''EI:''' Is it dead?\\
'''TJ:''' Well, it was coughing up blood last night...
* ''Series/MoonLovers'':
** Myung-hee's illness makes her cough up blood.
** Wang So coughs up blood after drinking poison.
* On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', when Tony contracted pneumonic plague, one of the signs that things were going downhill was when he started coughing up blood.
* ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'': In "Collateral Damage", the VictimOfTheWeek coughs up a large amount of blood as she keels over from an overdose of arsenic.
* ''Series/PiliFantasyWarOfDragons:'' the go to for showing an injured character is for them to spit or vomit up blood on occasion due to combat injury, internal injury, ''mystical'' injury, and the like. Understandable given the characters all being ''hand puppets'', so conventional bleeding from wounds is harder to stage, though it does happen (albeit less frequently).
* ''Series/{{Rome}}''. Atia orders the slave girl who's bringing her soup to sing for her, but everyone is puzzled when she starts bleeding from the mouth while doing so. Until she drops dead, having sampled the soup on the way to her mistress, who's just escaped a poisoning attempt.
* In ''Series/{{Salem}}'' the poison used to take Mab out has this effect.
* ''Series/{{Search}}'': Blood drips out of Baek-jun's mouth after the murderer throws him across the room repeatedly.
* Chris's death in the second series of the British ''Series/{{Skins}}''.
* Happens to Clark Kent when Doomsday socks him in the gut repeatedly, although he bounces back and wins. From the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Season 8 finale.
* Variation from ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E18KennedyAndHeidi Kennedy and Heidi]]": When Christopher starts coughing up blood, Tony decides it's safe to kill him.
* Parodied in the ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' episode "Combat". Mike [[TakingTheBullet takes a paintball]] for Tim, and starts ''coughing up paint''. Probably not for the first time; before the game starts, Tim is lecturing Mike not to take things too seriously and get himself banned again. One of the things he tells him is "not to eat the paintballs".
* ''Series/SquidGame'': When player 324 gets eliminated in the first game, he falls to the ground. Player 250, who thinks he's just acting up, inches closer to him… only to see blood spurting out of his mouth. This makes him panic and starts running away, only to get shot - that's how the other players learn [[DeadlyEuphemism what elimination actually meant]].
* ''Series/StrangersFromHell'': Blood pours from Deuk-soo's mouth after Moon-jo stabs him.
* This is used literally almost every episode in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Except, oddly enough, both [[Recap/SupernaturalS03E16NoRestForTheWicked Dean]] and [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne Sam]]'s [[DeathIsCheap first]] death scenes.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' villains have done this on occasion, typically while in their death throes (ie. [[Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman Chevalier]], [[Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman Radiguet]]).
* ''Series/TeenWolf'':
** Derek, after getting claw-stabbed in the back by an Alpha Peter Hale.
** Scott, after being shot by Kate.
* In ''Series/ThreeKingdoms'', this is the main indicator of illness, severe injury, poisoning, shock, and every other ailment that results in a character collapsing or dying shortly afterward.
* Considering all the deaths in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', this happens a surprising once. To Owen.
* The first season of the Australian drama ''Series/{{Underbelly}}'' is ridiculously fond of this trope. Greg Workman, Alfonse Gangitano, Nick The Russian, Mark Moran, Dino Dibra, Paul "PK" Kallipolitis and Carl Williams all get shot and end up with blood pouring from their mouths. Carl is the only one who survives, but to be fair he's the only one who receives a single bullet wound.
* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', When Rick is forced to kill Shane, you can see the blood as one of them apologizes.
* During the second season of ''Series/IceRoadTruckers'', Alex Debogorski begins to suffer from shortness of breath and cough up blood. The cause turns out to be a blood clot in his lung, and he is forced to go home because his doctor worries that he may give himself a heart attack if he keeps driving.
* In the ''Series/{{Wallander}}'' episode "Firewall", this is how you tell that Ella's not going to make it. Indeed she seems to have been shot in the gut. Averted in "The Man who Smiled", although it would have been fatal without Wallander's prompt intervention.
* In the 2nd season premiere episode of ''Series/TheWestWing'', the Secret Service doesn't know that President Bartlet has been shot until he begins spitting up blood as he talks (much like the UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan example in the RealLife section below).
* After Scully is shot in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E10Tithonus Tithonus]]", there's blood in her mouth. It's strongly implied she would've died from the gunshot, if not for Fellig dying ''for'' her.
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This trope will come into play when a promoter wants to sell a monster heel as particularly fearsome and brutal; one tactic will be injuring his opponent so badly he'll cause him to bleed from the mouth.

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* This is very common in Chinese literature, where characters are described as expelling blood through the mouth due to not only injuries or disease but also anger, sorrow, and annoyance.
** After repeatedly being thwarted by the genius strategist Zhuge Liang in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Zhou Yu expires from coughing up blood in rage.
* Creator/{{Amoridere}}:
** From the ''[[Literature/MadgieWhatDidYouDo Madgie]]'' series, we have this with Toki, in the 26th story, and she was continuous bleeding all throughout that story when said bleeding should have killed her or should have stopped. However, in this case, the fact that the bleeding didn't stop implied that she is DeadAllAlong.
** This trope is played for silliness, as can be read in [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Blood-Running-From-the-Mouth-325649776 this poem]], titled ''Blood Running From the Mouth'', where observers are wondering why the person in question (noted to be angry) is bleeding from the mouth and isn't injured (i.e no broken teeth or internal wounds) or possessed.
** However, in an unrelated poem titled, ''Beishang'', this is played straight with the titular DelicateAndSickly girl as a precoming to her death of terminal illness (the which is implied to have been brought on/worsened by despair). In, another poem, ''Visceral Needs'', it is unclear if this is literal or metaphorical, as the titular's feelings causes her to taste blood in her mouth and then it goes onto note how might as well be frothing it or bleeding to death, which leaves the question as to whether or not she's really bleeding or if she feels like she is. One could assume it to be the latter.
** This happens to a weakened (later on dying) Nezumi in chapter 14 of ''Broken Gate'', as she's sacrificing her strength and sorcery to keep the titular gate sealed as long as she can. As one may expect, it's taking a massive toll on her.
* In ''Literature/TheAmulet'', this is the ultimate fate of Dean after his wife feeds him baby food laced with lye.
* Spider, near the end of ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' by Creator/NeilGaiman, justified in that his tongue had been ripped out by the Lady Of Birds.
* Another ''Star Wars'' example comes from ''[[Literature/StarWarsBladeSquadron Blade Squadron]]''. After his starfighter takes severe damage, Commander Adon Fox tastes blood in his mouth from internal injuries he has suffered.
* The Spencer Dunmore novel ''Bomb Run'' is about the crew of an RAF Lancaster in WWII. One of the gunners is injured by flak and when the others attempt to contact him he tries to speak 'but his mouth was full of blood'.
* A dead man in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' is found to have blood clotted in his nose and mouth. His tongue was cut out, but someone botched it and he either bled to death or choked on his own blood.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Eric coughs up blood just before he dies due to multiple chest wounds.
* In ''Literature/DarkLordTheRiseOfDarthVader'', after falling from a high position, Roan Shryne coughs blood after he "ruptured a vital organ from the fall."
* Played with in ''Literature/DarknessVisible'' - when putting his brain under extreme stress, Lewis bleeds from the nose and the eyes, but not actually from the mouth. The sense of this being a [[OhCrap Bad Thing]] remains the same.
* In ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'', the {{Five Token Band}}s who fought UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in movies "would learn, despite their differing backgrounds, how to trickle syrup from the corners of their mouths to indicate that they had been wounded. In the actual war, of course, real blood was used."
* A strange subversion happened in a ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel: Fitz smokes thirty a day, so it's no real surprise when he suddenly starts coughing up blood for no reason in particular. The weird thing is that it's [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never brought up again]] and whatever was the matter with him apparently clears itself up between books.
* In the novel ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', Scarlett is relieved when the injured Ashley does ''not'' have this, because she frequently saw this while she was a nurse during the Civil War and came to know it as a harbinger of death.
* This is one effect of the fictional disease Chimera in the novel ''Gravity'' by Tess Garritsen.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' Ron is said to have blood trickling from his mouth and giggling uncontrollably after a Death Eater hits him with a strange curse that significantly reduces his cognitive abilities in the short run.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Harry is described as wiping a trickle of blood from Dumbledore's mouth after the latter is hit with a Killing Curse and blasted off the Astronomy Tower.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', the death of Severus Snape is preceded by both blood and the silver fluid of a memory bubbling out of his mouth.
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia'': Unsurprisingly happens to Orwell himself when he's shot in the throat by a sniper.
* In ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' series, if a fledgling vampyre is rejecting the Change, they will start coughing up blood, then they will die.
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', [[BigBad President Snow]]'s mouth is constantly bleeding as a side effect of the numerous poisons he's had to ingest while inducing the poisoning of political rivals (antidotes having only been able to do so much). It tends not to seep out, but it smells so strongly that he constantly wears the genetically modified roses in order to cover it up.
* Jem in ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' due to his 'illness' coughs up blood when weak.
* In Creator/KeithRoberts' short story "Monkey and Pru and Sal", the title characters are mentally-retarded (and possibly deformed) human scavengers in a [[AfterTheEnd post-nuclear holocaust]] landscape. When Monkey goes off foraging alone he gets too close to a contaminated city, and a short time after his return he doubles up in agony and starts coughing up blood. It's not the radiation sickness that kills him, though: it's Pru and Sal, who no longer recognize his contorted, bloody face and beat him to death. On balance, this is probably more merciful.
* Happens to First Mate Cox in ''Literature/{{Nation}}'' after he takes an axe to the chest, accompanied by a SlasherSmile and [[ThreateningShark sharks]].
* Subverted in ''Literature/NineDragons''. Detective Harry Bosch notices that the blood on John Li's mouth was smeared, not just coughed up. He figures out that Li swallowed a bullet casing before he died.
* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/{{Ravenor}}'' novels, [[LanguageOfMagic Enuncia]] is so horrifically chaos-warped that using it often causes bleeding at the mouth.
** In ''Literature/{{Bequin}}'', Enuncia is used to test Beta -- she doesn't bleed, being a pariah, but someone who listens has a nosebleed.
* ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'':
** Liu Qingge coughs up blood during his qi deviation, surviving what would have been his death in the original ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'' with Shen Qingqiu's help. He coughs up blood afterwards too, having jostled his badly injured internal organs by sitting up too abruptly.
** Shen Qingqiu spits out blood after self-detonating his golden core, dying moments later.
** After having extremely violent sex with Luo Binghe at Maigu Ridge and taking his demonic qi into himself to save him from [[EvilWeapon Xin Mo]], Shen Qingqiu coughs up blood, frightening them both. He survives through the System's interference.
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' blood constantly seeps from the mouth [[TearsOfBlood and eyes]] of [[OurWightsAreDifferent lesser Shade]], a sign of one that was only [[TheCorruption turned]] recently.
* Subverted in one ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' short story: after the main character gets shot in the back, on of the other members of his gang tells him, using YeOldeButcheredEnglish since they're the Ancients, that he's bleeding from the mouth and therefore going to die soon. The main character tells him with annoyance that no, he's just fine because he was wearing body armor. He's bleeding because he tripped when he was shot and cut his lip on his teeth.
* ''Literature/TheSongOfRoland'' has the titular character blow a horn so hard he gives himself an aneurysm. A stream of blood flies out through the horn, and his brains start leaking from his ears. Roland wanders around a bit more, pays his respects to his fallen, climbs a hill, tries to destroy his sword, ''fails'' and destroys a very large rock instead, [[TheRuntAtTheEnd kills one more stray bad guy by bashing him with the horn]], and symbolically faces the land yet to be conquered before the cranial hemorrhaging and displaced brains catch up with him.
* ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'': Right before he dies of radiation poisoning, [[spoiler:Fiery]] coughs up blood.
* In ''There Is a Happy Land'' by Keith Waterhouse, the [[NamelessNarrative unidentified narrator]] finds Marian's body in this condition. It's implied that she had an extremely brutal and horrifying death, but the very young narrator [[InnocentInaccurate doesn't realise this.]]
* Happens to Corrie in ''Literature/TheTomorrowSeries'' when she gets shot.
* ''Literature/{{Waltharius}}'': Ekivrid gets his lung pierced by Walther's javelin and "spits out a stream of blood" before he dies.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''Ghostmaker'', when the Ghosts run across a particularly bad patch of Chaos, they start bleeding at the mouth.
** Also used straight in the same novel, when a wounded trooper dies while Gaunt is calling for a medic.
** In ''Sabbat Martyr'', while Kolea is lugging Mkvenner to the Saint, Mkvenner's coughs splatter blood. Justified because he suffed from severe internal damage.
** And Rawne coughs up some when a Chaos sorcerer is trying to control him.
** In Creator/DanAbnett's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel ''Literature/BrothersOfTheSnake'', the seriousness of Inquisitor Mabuse's injuries shown by having him bleed at the mouth, though he lives long enough to provide the Marines with evidence that they were working for him.
** In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/{{Ultramarines}}'' novel ''The Warriors of Ultramar'', the BloodMagic used by the Mortifactors causes Blood From the Mouth for a seer -- revolting the Ultramarines who witness it.
** In ''Dead Sky Black Sun'', Leonid coughs up blood. While he fights on, it is not much later when he persuades Uriel to [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind leave him]], because he will only slow them and die.
** In William King's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Literature/SpaceWolf'' novel ''Wolfblade'', [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs the invasion of the house]] begins with TheMole shooting a guard, who bleeds from the mouth.
** In Lee Lightner's ''Sons of Fenris'', when Jeremiah fights Cadmus, blood from Cadmus's mouth is the sign that he got in a telling blow -- though he is actually killed by the next blow.
** In Creator/DanAbnett's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novel ''Legion'', questioning a wounded Nurthene ends when he bleeds from the mouth and dies.
** In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel ''Storm of Iron'', the Chaos sorcerer Kelmaur bleeds from not just the mouth but from every orifice in his head when his scrying leads to a psychic attack.
** In Creator/JamesSwallow's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/BloodAngels'' novel ''Red Fury'', Corvus dies with blood forming a pink froth at his mouth -- his throat had been cut.
** In Creator/JamesSwallow's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel ''Faith & Fire'', when Vaun is hit with a psycannon, he coughs a red mist.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Blood from a character's mouth is nearly as bad of news as the sentence "Their eyes closed, and their breathing became quick and shallow."
** Hawkfrost coughs up clots of blood shortly before he dies at the end of ''Sunset''.
** Tigerstar at the end of the ''Rise of Scourge'' manga.
** Non-fatal example: At one point in ''Forest of Secrets'', Graystripe has blood bubbling from his mouth.
** After he is hit by a car, blood trickles out of Whitethroat's mouth as he tries to speak.
** In ''Moonrise'' a doomed [[RedShirt Tribe cat]] has blood coming out of its mouth after being slammed against a wall.
** Snowfur, when she's hit by a car.
** In the short story "The Clans Decide", blood comes out of an injured she-cat's mouth as she tries to speak. She gets better, but she is near death at this point.
** Several characters (such as Badgerpaw) will have a drop of blood run from the corner of their lip when they're dying but have time for some final words.
** Cats use the term "redcough" to refer to this phenomenon (in contrast to, for example, "greencough", which is pneumonia).
* Phase, in "Ayla and the Grinch", in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. After she tries to stop a demon who wants to force its way into their world, she's so badly injured she's bleeding from her mouth, nose, and eye. And elsewhere. Lots of elsewhere. It turns out she ''was'' dying from her injuries, but she gets saved in the nick of time by a mutant healer.
* ''Literature/WhereTheRedFernGrows'': Blood bubbles from Rubin's mouth right before he dies after falling on his own axe.
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/TheZeroStone'', Vondar has blood on his mouth before Jern starts to flee the fight.
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* Frequent, but most often used when someone's about to die in ''Anime/AfroSamurai''.
* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': [[spoiler:In [[CoolTeacher Koro-sensei]]'s backstory, he was a legendary assassin who was captured and [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented]] on, eventually turning him from a human into a tentacled PersonOfMassDestruction. After one experiment he's shown coughing up massive amounts of blood, much to [[ImpliedLoveInterest Aguri]]'s concern. Over the intercom, [[MadScientist Yanagi]][[DomesticAbuser sawa]] tells her the reaction is perfectly normal]].
* Subverted constantly in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. Whenever Guts takes a massive blow from an enemy, especially if it slams him into the wall or floor, blood pours vigorously from his mouth, and he certainly appears dead most of these occasions. But ''[[MadeOfIron he never dies]].''
* In ''Anime/{{Beyblade}}'', blood drips from Kai's mouth when he is battling Brooklyn.
* ''Manga/BlackButler II'': Alois does this at the end of the 7th episode after being stabbed by Ciel.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Happens a few times to Ichigo, most notably before his first real [[SuperpoweredEvilSide hollow transformation]].
** He somehow does it ''through a face-concealing mask'' in his later fight with Grimmjow.
** Censorship in the anime (which is ''incredibly'' inconsistent about whether real blood can be shown) gets a bit silly with this. When Uryu's stomach is destroyed by Szayel Aporro, blood pours out of his mouth; in the anime, WATER comes out instead.
** Ukitake does this on a regular basis because he suffers from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis Tuberculosis]].
** In Chapter 392, Hinamori has a bit of a trickle, though considering she had just been stabbed in the chest, she had a good reason.
** During their fight in Hueco Mundo, the ''second'' time Nnoitra Gilga punches his hand through Kenpachi Zaraki's chest blood spurts out of Kenpachi's mouth. However, Kenny's just getting going.
* This is shown to be a symptom of the virus in the manga ''Manga/BloodyMonday'', as well as that of those suffering from neutron radiation.
* Hilariously done in the manga version of ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'', where pretty much every attack causes characters to spew ridiculous amounts of blood.
* Liang Qi in ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'', as a side effect of failing to give herself Synesthesia.
* Discussed in Book 40 of ''Manga/CaseClosed'', where Conan, Mouri, Ran and Sonoko find the VictimOfTheWeek hanging from the ceiling in an apparent suicide. Because he is bleeding from the mouth, which, according to Ran and Sonoko, people who commit suicide by hanging [[TaughtByTelevision usually do on TV]]. Conan points out that doesn't usually happen in real life unless the victim has been cut before the noose is tightened and movies only do it to make it clear to the viewers that the victims are dead.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Index, in bit of a creepy moment when she's in her 'self defense' personality, is going through the magical requirement to heal her slashed internal organs - and hello proper reason to actually have such bleeding. She's trying to get Komoe to perform magic when she pauses to cough up blood and then instantly continues in her former robotic manner.
* In the opening chapter of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', this is used to show that, apart from all the other [[PerpetualPoverty miserable]] conditions in his life, Denji has also inherited the [[IncurableCoughOfDeath sickness]] that killed his mother.
* In ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', Yuri spills out quite a mouthful of blood shortly after her introduction as Ikki and Stella's homeroom teacher. They take her to the nurse's office afterwards, and she tells them this happens on a regular basis.
* Since the demons of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' have the ability to regenerate, this trope is often used to show when someone's given them a serious blow. It's rarely used for humans, however--the only time is when Mary Magdalene is given a fatal blow by Aion in the manga.
* Almost everyone in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' has had blood spurt from their mouths at some point or another. It's usually {{justified|Trope}} by the character having just taken a sword or clawed hand straight through the gut. The blood itself usually isn't indicative of impending death on its own, as [[GoodThingYouCanHeal they can heal massive amounts of damage]].
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'':
** In "Jupiter Jazz (Part II)", when [[spoiler:Spike finds the dying Gren]] after the latter's ship crashes, [[spoiler:shot down by Vicious]].
** Also, in the penultimate episode when [[spoiler: Vicious brutally murders each of the elders of the Red Dragon syndicate]].
* ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'': Ian coughs/throws up quite a bit of blood after a long stint of stress over his relationship with Jeremy and Jeremy's emotional state.
* Played with in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''.
** Towards the end of the first season, after November 11 has killed his treacherous boss, he's seen staggering down the street, trying to get call someone on his cell phone. He stops and coughs up blood, and smiles sadly--then the camera angle changes to show that he's been shot in the stomach and there's blood all over his suit. Blood From the Mouth was the least of his worries.
** Also happens to Havoc earlier in the season when November 11 kills her.
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', whilst fighting the Older Brother Spider Demon, Zenitsu was poisoned and went through great stress to prepare his Thunder Breath technique to the point he vomited some blood in the middle of his struggle; way later in the series during a comedic extra story Zenitsu vomits blood in pure excitement, as he sees Nezuko wearing a swimsuit, comically dying in the process, it’s just a fun extra page though so obviously Zenitsu does not actually die for real.
* This seems to happen to Allen Walker in nearly every battle of ''Manga/DGrayMan'', though it doesn't so much indicate his death as just him being beaten the crap out of by bad guys. He usually returns the favor.
* Pretty much every time a character in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' got a nice hit in the gut, they'd fall to their knees and start hacking up blood. They are usually fine a few seconds later, strangely enough. It makes more sense in the dub, where the blood is edited out so that it seems like they are coughing just because the wind got knocked out of them.
** This happens so frequently that when a character hacks up blood, it's treated with about the same concern as if they just had the nonlethal, busted lip variety. One notable instance was in the first Broly movie; blood is dripping down Broly's face, and he stares at his opponent... then abruptly smiles and licks it off, getting a fairly entertaining {{Squick}} reaction from Goku.
** In the original version, Trunks gets one after getting a hole blown through his chest by Perfect Cell.
** When Krillin is impaled by Frieza, he throws up ''a damn river's worth.'' This one was {{justifi|edTrope}}able, though, as that hit would have killed him if not for [[HealingHands Dende]].
*** Which Frieza licked off of his face too.
** When Frieza charges Goku at one point during their battle, Goku punches him right in his chest, causing him to vomit a big glob of blood as a reminder of Goku's newfound Super Saiyan power.
** In the movie ''Bojack Unbound'', this happens to Bojack when Super Saiyan 2 Gohan punches a hole straight through his stomach. In this case it's, if not a mortal wound (Future Trunks doing the same to one of his minions killed them instantly), then a severe one that likely would've killed him if he weren't so powerful.
* In the manga of ''Manga/ElfenLied'', this occurs to Lucy repeatedly as she overuses her enormously powerful vectors, causing her body to deteriorate from the effort. Eventually, she is reduced to nothing more than a puddle of flesh, bones, and organs.
* In ''Manga/{{Emerging}}'', blood running from the mouth and [[TearsOfBlood eyes]] is a good sign that the [[ThePlague unknown disease]] ravaging Tokyo is entering its final stage. This generally precedes blood ''[[HighPressureBlood gushing]]'' from the mouth, nose, eyes, and every other orifice.
* Hyatt from ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' does this ''constantly''. She also has the tendency to die, sometimes ''from'' this; in the final episode, she [[HighPressureBlood bleeds so much]] from her mouth that the ''world floods''.
* ''Manga/FairyTail:'' Happens to anyone who breathes in [[PoisonousPerson Bradman's]] AntiMagic particles, whether it kills them immediately or not. The only reason [[spoiler: Gajeel]] lasted the whole fight with him is because there's trace amounts of [[spoiler: iron]] in those particles, [[spoiler: which he breathes in as a last-ditch effort to go [[SuperMode Dragon Force]], which was successful. A CurbStompBattle then ensues in Gajeel's favor.]]
** It actually happens more often than you'd expect for a series like this, though only in the manga.
* ''LightNovel/FateZero'' uses this quite often when a character dies.
** A standout example is when Kotomine covers Irisviel's mouth (to keep her from screaming) while he stabs her with his his [[WolverineClaws Black Keys]]. The reaction shot of her face shows her eyes widening in pain and crying as she vomits blood through his hand.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has a fair bit of this.
** Izumi coughs up a lot of blood due to her missing internal organs. Sometimes it's played for drama... and sometimes for ''laughs'', like when she does that on a guy trying to attack her.
** This is Riza Hawkeye's father's cause of death.
** It is implied that Trisha died this way in the manga (shown via one of Edward's nightmares).
** At the end of the Briggs arc when Edward is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed through the gut with a giant pole]], he doesn't notice it at first and tries to get up...only to suddenly cough up blood and collapse.
** Kimblee, after Scar punches through his chest.
** While fighting Envy in Gluttony's stomach, Ling gets punched and flung into a stone pillar with enough force that he coughs up a small gob of blood.
** During his LastStand battle with Scar, King Bradley briefly stops to cough up a puddle of blood. Justified in this case, as it's established he's already mortally wounded and wants to go out fighting.
* The 2003 ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime has some more examples:
** Homunculi are capable of healing any wound by relying on the power of the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild red stones]] they've consumed, so the first real step in defeating them is often to perform an alchemical ritual which causes them to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything vomit up all of their red stones]].
** Greed vomits up red stones ''and'' blood.
** Also happens to Edward in the last episode, when he is stabbed in the chest by Envy. He does get better, though.
** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa the movie]], rivers of blood ooze from Wrath's mouth after he is bitten by Gluttony, and he spews even more when Gluttony nearly chomps him in half. Also, Alfons Heidrich develops a life-threatening illness that causes him to cough up blood from time to time.
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', the first sign that Nuriko is a goner in his battle with Ashitare is when he coughs up blood, bleeding much from his lips among other places afterwards.
* Happens to Takiko in ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', since she caught TB after taking care of her mother, who died of the disease.
* In ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'', this is how Hayato's father, Hiroyuki dies when he coughs up blood from his mouth after being seriously injured in a car accident (in which the car exploded and the debris stabbed him), and the accident [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident was set up]] by Smith.
* Happens at least twice in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', when Fujino was dying due to her appendicitis, and when Araya was impaled by Shiki.
* Happens in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' particularly when Gintoki takes [[http://www.onemanga.com/Gintama/90/13/ a serious]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/Gintama/90/14/ body shot]]. He always [[UnexplainedRecovery gets better]].
* ''Anime/GiovannisIsland'': Kanta vomits blood on the way back to the internment camp. It's the first sign that's what's wrong with him is much worse than a simple cough and cold.
* In ''Anime/GranblueFantasy'', it happens as the result of a ritual gone wrong. Two unsuspecting sacrifices were supposed to die in exchange for making a third person immortal. However, the ritual somehow ends up making the "wrong" person immortal and the others end up with blood from the mouth, indicating that they were indeed going to die soon after.
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'':
** Happens to Graham Aker every time his MidSeasonUpgrade (he's had a fairly absurd number of them) surpasses his body's tolerance. The explanation seems to be that the G-forces are messing with his internals. He lives, though.
** Also happens to Sergei Smirnov, after his son "fatally wounds" his mobile suit. He is killed in the ensuing explosion.
** Happens again with Nena Trinity before she dies, although her blood is a result of the Regnant's Fang destroying almost her entire abdomen. She uses the little energy she had left to let Louise know ''EXACTLY'' how she feels about her for doing that.
* Happens to Manga/HaruhiChan while taking story suggestions from the SOS Brigade for their new amateur film. She has to be hospitalized at the end of the sequence.
* In a later chapter of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' this happens to Luca.
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Alucard causes this to happen to Rip Van Winkle when he is killing her.
* In a non-serious example, England from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' coughs up blood whenever the Fourth of July comes up or anything relating to independence is mentioned.
* The dying type shows up a few times in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', most notably when Keiichi is shot by Takano.
* Happens [[http://s28.postimg.org/l1weql6n1/Blood.jpg rather graphically]] to Miroku in ''Manga/InuYasha'' whilst trying to suck Naraku into his Air-Rip. He not only bleeds from the mouth but from the nose, ears ''and'' eyes.
* In ''Anime/{{K}}: Missing Kings'' to Kuroh during his second fight with Yukari, in a rather lovely garden. He doesn't die, but he does have blood from his mouth, which he wipes away as his [[LongHairedPrettyBoy hair blows in the wind]], making for a particularly nice shot, were it not for the blood.
** When Iwafune dies in ''Return of Kings'', he has this as well.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. When resident ShipperOnDeck Karen [[spoiler:catches a glimpse of Kaguya and Shirogane's FirstKiss]], she passes out and starts to bleed out of her mouth as she's nearly killed from sheer joy. Later subverted when spin-off series ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' covered those events and revealed that the blood was actually from her biting her tongue to stay focused.
* In ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'' after Kazune finally [[HeroicRROD pushes himself too far]] while fighting the BigBad, he coughs up blood, and then continues bleeding from the nose and mouth for a while afterwards.
* ''Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru'': During their fight Kevin squeezes Minoru's throat hard enough to make him cough up blood and [[BloodLust drinks the blood]].
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has a few examples, often played for laughs due to the tone of the work.
** One notable example has [[spoiler:Satsuki Kiryuin]] instantly vomit out a mouthful of blood after being punched in the stomach by [[spoiler:her own mother. In spite of this, she seemingly recovers and even survives a stint of capture and sexual abuse aftewards.]] [[TheDeterminator Tough. As. Nails.]]
* In the ''Manga/LoveHina'' manga, Keitaro [[CrashIntoHello crashes into]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mutsumi]], knocking her over. Keitaro apologizes, then sees that blood is trickling from her nose and mouth. This, combined with her (temporarily) BlankWhiteEyes ([[FridgeLogic plus the fact that she seems to have no pulse]]) convinces Keitaro and Naru that she has died. Of course, it's really just one of her fainting spells.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Vita hacks up a lot of blood after one of the MechaMooks impales her through her chest. One of the combat cyborgs is also shown with blood coming out of her mouth after Zest kills her.
** Precia Testarossa also has this on occasion, as a byproduct of her IncurableCoughOfDeath.
* In ''Anime/MacrossPlus'', we see this just before Guld crashes his fighter into the unmanned drone; he coughs out a giant gob of blood as the G-forces crush his internal organs.
* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' ascends to NighInvulnerability towards the end of the series (through being just that badass, no kidding) but does Blood From the Mouth to demonstrate to the BigBad that inside, she is still a human being. [[FauxSymbolism It's symbolic, really.]]
* In ''Anime/MagicalPokaan'', 4 ''[[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires Pachira]]'' squirts out liters of blood... because she had athletes' foot.
* ''Anime/MekakucityActors'': Shion in episode 10's extended flashback when she uses [[TakenForGranite her powers]] for the first time [[MamaBear to protect Mary]]. [[MissingMom She perishes shortly afterwards]].
* Subverted in ''Metal Armor Dragonar'', in which a somewhat minor HumongousMecha pilot is shown coughing up blood constantly within the two episodes he is in. However, getting blown up when his giant robot is destroyed is what finally does him in.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/MyDadsTheQueenOfAllVTubers''. A RunningGag is Takashi vomiting blood after a particularly [[CringeComedy cringe-worthy moment]].
* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', All Might exhibits this constantly. He's lost his stomach and most of his lungs prior to the start of the series, which, in addition to giving him a gangly, emaciated appearance whenever he isn't using his powers, causes blood shoots out of his mouth whenever he overuses his powers or even gestures a little too hard. Occasionally it gets PlayedForLaughs when he coughs up blood in surprise for an improvised SpitTake.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The Hyūga families fighting style uses [[LifeEnergy chakra]] to inflict internal injuries rather than external ones. You only know you have been hit after you cough up blood.
** When Naruto fights Sasuke in an effort to stop him from defecting to Orochimaru, the first hit Sasuke gives him is a MegatonPunch that causes this in addition to sending him flying.
** We later see it happen to Itachi during his final fight with Sasuke. No, he hadn't been hit by a Hyūga, he just had tuberculosis or something the entire time. And he ''still'' kicked ass.
*** Also happened to Kimimaro who had a fatal disease.
** Jiraiya has quite a bit of blood coming from his mouth when he dies, as a result of his throat being crushed. Hinata, while appearing to be dead in the eyes of many viewers, had a trickle of blood coming from her mouth. Pain coughs up blood after using Chibaku Tensei, having already used up most of his chakra.
** In one of the chapters Naruto is bleeding from his mouth after a brutal beat-up from a Cloud ninja.
** Who can forget Part 1's Big Finale, after which Sasuke coughs up blood near Naruto, who is passed out on the ground? (It was a rough fight.)
** Danzo starts drooling the red stuff after getting squeezed by Sasuke's Susano'o. But it's apparently not fatal nearly as what happens at the end of the chapter ([[NighInvulnerability He's okay]]). He starts again (for real) after taking a fatal hit and Karin does as well (she lives though).
** Asuma's death.
** After Kushina restrains Kyuubi and later Minato when they both are [[HeroicSacrifice using their bodies to stop Kyuubi]] from killing their son Naruto.
** Tsunade has Blood From the Mouth in her battle with Orochimaru after she jumps out in front of his Kusanagi sword to protect Naruto. Subverted, though, in that she gets up and continues to fight (and even heals herself).
** Sakura after being impaled with Sasori's sword. The preview has other characters talk like they're mourning her death, only to be interrupted: "Cut it out, you guys! I'm still here!"
* In the manga ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', some people who breath in too much poisonous miasma get this.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Negi gets some blood from the mouth after being impaled by a giant stone spear shortly after returning to the Magic World. He also heavily ''pukes'' blood after getting the complete crap beaten out of him by Rakan in the final match of the tournament. Both times, these are caused by obviously major damage. Both times, ''[[HeroicResolve he gets up anyway]]''.
** It happens in a flashback too, when the Mage of the Beginning obliterates Ala Rubra in one hit, most of them have Blood From the Mouth.
** [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Evangeline McDowell]] displays this in an early arc after keeping Negi from [[TakingTheBullet taking a stalactite]] meant for her. Of course for [[RedBaron someone called the Undying Mage]], getting a sharp piece of stone marginally less wide than her torso rammed through her gut is a [[GoodThingYouCanHeal transitory irritation]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Luffy coughs up blood more than once in his fight with Rob Lucci. It's subverted when Luffy not only keeps going after coughing up blood, but [[{{Determinator}} stands right back up]].
** Zigzagged during Luffy's fight with Usopp. The latter originally pretends to be coughing up blood from previous injuries to make Luffy hesitate, but by the end of the episode, he genuinely does cough up blood.
** PlayedForLaughs by Sanji when he is forced to admit his poorly-drawn Wanted Poster is indeed him by Ivankov.
** Dr. Hiriluk in Chopper's flashback does this to show that he's dying of an incurable disease.
** In the Punk Hazard arc, after Mocha swallows all of the drugged candies she was carrying so as to protect the other kidnapped children from eating it, the poor girl ends up in immense pain, coughing lots of blood. Fortunately, Chopper was there to stabilize her condition.
* In ''VisualNovel/OokamiKakushi'', Shigetsu bleeds heavily from the mouth before dying.
* Played with in ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': Break sometimes does this after a battle, but it doesn't mean he's lost; in fact, it's a pretty good sign that he just [[CurbStompBattle stomped someone into the ground]] with Mad Hatter. It's just that using Hatter puts such a strain on his body that he'll probably be dead in a year.
* Invoked and PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets''. Trying to convince the sisters to stay and study, [[TheDitz Yotsuba]] [[BadLiar tries to make up a lie]] that Fuutarou has some crazy deadly illness. To at least make it somewhat believable, Fuutarou grabs a nearby bottle of ketchup to simulate this, and surprisingly it actually convinces them, if only for a moment.
* ''Manga/RaveMaster'' abuses this one. In a ''sword fighting manga'' blood from the mouth is more common than ''cuts''.
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'':
** Although toned down in the anime, by a lot, in the manga, you can't help but feel sorry for Tsuna when he gets punched around or nearly suffocated to death by the BigBad. All this beat down results in a lot of that unpleasant red stuff. Good thing the manga portrays it as black.
** Chrome suffers from this whenever her illusionary organs give out. Immensely freakier in the manga where they actually ''show'' her coughing up quite a bit of blood.
* In the conclusion of ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion 2.0'', the Tenth Angel impales Unit-01, causing Shinji to vomit up a torrent of HighPressureBlood due to his high {{synchronization}} rate. This is the first hint that ''things'' are going to happen, since it shows that Shinji retains an absurdly high {{synchronization}} with his Evangelion despite the fact that Unit-01 was impaled ''after'' the power ran out. Now angry, he reactivates the Unit, and an impressive resurgence against the Angel occurs.
* Alice in ''Anime/RODTheTV'' after getting [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice the mother of all papercuts]].
** Also Ikkyu Soujun in the OVA when Nancy squeezes his heart.
* Tsukune from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' coughs up a decent quantity after getting his shoulder crushed via an enraged half-breed monstrel.
* ''Anime/RurouniKenshin'':
** When Kenshin coughs up blood after a particularly brutal hit, one of the women watching the battle actually notes that this means he's [[JustifiedTrope sustained major organ damage]]. (The trope is played straight in the [[NonSerialMovie Seisouhen OVA]]: this is a sign that Kenshin, and then Kaoru have contracted The IncurableCoughOfDeath.)
** Also happens with Sanosuke during his battle with Anji. Justified again: Anji is a BareFistedMonk and has hit Sano's vital organs more than once with his fists.
** Over the course of the ''Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal'' OVA, one of Kenshin's allies (erstwhile boss, really) Takasugi Shinsaku coughs up blood regularly, and eventually dies of his illness while overlooking a battlefield. [[JustifiedTrope Completely justified]] in that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinsaku_Takasugi the actual historical figure the character is based on]] also died of tuberculosis before the end of the Meiji Restoration.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': An has a bit of blood on her mouth after she is stabbed by the Makai Tree. Though this injury is fatal, she is revived.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Aphrodite after Shun unleashes [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique his Nebula Storm]] on him.
* Just about every time someone dies in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'', they do it half-choking on blood.
* Though it's more a sign of ''grief'' than death, it happens in ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'' Evolution R (episode 10) to Zelgadis when he learns Rezo can't cure him. Oh the poor, poor dear...
** Though to be fair, Rezo was likely screwing with him. Having the source of ultimate evil sealed in your soul and all that, maybe he just lied to keep Shabranigdo in check.
** The trope is played straight during the [[MoodWhiplash more brutal battles]], though. The most noteworthy case is from the same season above when Zelgadis is nearly crushed by the resurrected Rezo-Shabranigdo, causing him to cough up a notable dose of blood.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** This happens occasionally. Notable examples include when [[SuperOCD Death The Kid]] realized he'd had part of his hair cut (making it [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes asymmetrical]]), Maka after the fight with [[OurWereWolvesAreDifferent Free]] on London Bridge, where the blood was black, indicating she was affected by... [[TheCorruption black blood]] and Mifune after being defeated by Black Star for the third time. In the anime he lives, in the manga he does not.
** In the anime, the [[WeirdMoon moon]] constantly has blood dripping out of the corner of its mouth. [[TrailersAlwaysLie Except in the opening]].
** Medusa coughs up blood twice in her first battle with Stein in the anime: once when she gets slammed against a wall, the next when he hits her with his [[KiManipulation Soul Force attack.]]
* In ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'', Sa Sakujun bleeds copiously enough from the mouth to soak the front of his clothing, even though rather than suffering any internal injuries he is succumbing to a poison he'd taken much earlier in the day. Transferred to Shuurei's lips afterwards.
* In the ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' movie, Yoshika gets this while she's being pursued by the giant tower Neuroi. She gets a much worse injury at the end of the fight, though.
* Nearly every fight scene in ''Anime/TokyoGhoul'' and it's sequels. Characters usually survive because of Ghouls' [[HealingFactor regenerative abilities.]]
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'':
** Fai spits out blood when he fails to transport himself and Kurogane out of the collapsing world of Celes. Pretty much expected when half his power has been diminished after C!Syaoran ate his left eye.
** Also happens to Kurogane's mother earlier on.
* ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'':
** In the first episode, Van is knocked aside by the dragon and rolls a little ways. He then vomits well over a quart of blood. Which is odd, since he survives so much damage during the series that he's clearly [[MadeOfIron some sort of robot]].
** There's also a later time where Van begins coughing up blood, seemingly unprovoked, while the heroes are imprisoned by Zaibach. Rather than a rapid onset of Tuberculosis, it turns out to be because the bad guys have started dismantling the mech he's [[{{Synchronization}} permanently synched to]]. ''Heart first''.
* ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'':
** The devil Ashkelon spews blood from his mouth just before dying, due to eating the poisoned cake the SerialKiller Snark had given to Demona.
** As Snark is closing up [[DealWithTheDevil her deal with Demona]], she starts coughing up blood, a sign that her time before her soul is claimed is running out. In the last few minutes before she dies, she practically pukes blood.
* In ''Anime/TheWindRises'', the main character's fiancee/wife is shown coughing up a ''lot'' of blood when she has a lung hemorrhage - it's already been established that she has tuberculosis, but that's where it becomes obvious that she's not going to survive the movie.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Happens a few times in the final story arc. Whenever one of their monsters are destroyed, many of the characters cough up a small amount of blood, often shortly before dying. The most extreme example would be Bakura (or at least one of the numerous versions of him), who, upon losing a duel against Yuugi, coughs up a huge glob of blood, not long before dying.
** The ancient Bakura actually vomits blood before dying. ''He comes back.''
** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': In an episode explaining Daitokuji-sensei's, or rather, Amnael's, origins, he coughs up a little bit of blood due to succumbing to a terminal disease, but he makes a second body right before his first one dies.
* In ''Manga/ZombieLoan'', Michiru exhibits this in the second episode. Although it's not as much of an indicator as the ''massive pool of blood'' around her after she [[TakingTheBullet took a sword strike]] for another character. She got better.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* This trope is pretty common in horror films.
* This is incredibly common in Chinese dramas and action movies, mostly to show that a character has been poisoned or has taken serious damage in the obligatory Kung Fu fight.
* ''Film/OneBR'': One of the tenants who ends up getting slapped by all the others has a bit of blood come out of the side of his mouth when slapped by [[spoiler:Sarah]].
** [[spoiler:Lots of blood comes out of Jack's mouth while Sarah stabs him to death.]]
* ''Film/AngerOfTheDead'': While waiting in the hospital for Alice to return to him, Stephen ends up coughing up quite a bit of blood.
* In ''[[Film/WinnetouI Apache Gold]]'', Klekih-petra, an old man who is a white father to the Indians dies with the ominous blood, being murdered by Santer. He doesn't die immediately and begs Winnetou, a future Apache chief, to save the peace.
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''
** Loki bleeds from the mouth as he's strangled to death by Thanos.
** Thor has a bloody mouth after Ebony Maw gags him with a piece of metal.
** After being stabbed through the abdomen with his own nanobot-sword, Tony is left weakly wheezing for air as he spits out blood.
* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', the old man referred to as Ra's al Ghul was bleeding from the mouth after being hit by a pile of logs in a burning building Bruce Wayne and Ra's al Ghul were both in.
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'' has the Penguin hacking up nasty black bile right before he finally dies.
* In ''Film/BlackDeath'', this is the symptom indicating that Griff has been infected. Subverted in that, he doesn't die but is [[MercyKill finished off by his friend]].
* In ''Film/BladeRunner'', blood flows from Deckard's mouth into a backlit shot glass. Possibly the most beautiful Blood From the Mouth scene ever shot- but honestly, do you expect anything less from Creator/RidleyScott?
* In ''Film/BloodHarvest'', Gary bleeds from the mouth after Mervo shoots him in the chest.
* ''Film/BloodPi'': People have blood coming out of their mouths when attacked, like the cheerleader Amber killed and stole the face of, and [[spoiler:Amber herself in the final scene in the movie.]]
* ''Film/BloodWidow'': Blood comes out of Amber's mouth after the killer stabs her in the neck.
* In ''Film/BloodyHomecoming'', Annie gets stabbed through the back of her head and the stake comes out her mouth, accompanied by a copious amount of blood. Later Roddy is stabbed through the chest from behind and blood fountains out of his mouth.
* In ''Film/DasBoot'' the lethal version of this happens to the Captain. In the novel, it is explained that he has shrapnel wounds through his back.
* In ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' when the hunters confront the newly vampirized Lucy. Van Helsing forces her back with his cross and back to her coffin. Apparently the holy power is so much for her that she actually ''punks up blood'' in his face before finally going dormant. When they proceed to stake her, you can see blood dripping from the sides of Lucy's mouth.
* In Jane Campion's ''Film/BrightStar'', Fanny finds out that Keats is ill when she sees blood-stained linen (he's not seen coughing blood at that point, but the implications are pretty clear.)
* In ''Film/TheBucketList'', Edward confirms he has cancer when he coughs up blood into a handkerchief.
* In ''Film/CabinFever 2'', the attendees of a school prom have been drinking punch that a) was made from bottled water from the small town featured in the first ''Film/CabinFever'' movie--you know, the stuff that's infected with necrotizing fasciitis--and b) was thereafter pissed in by a custodian infected with the same disease. About halfway through everyone starts vomiting blood all over the place as they apparently realize that their internal organs have liquefied.
* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': Mark has a line of blood coming out of the side of his mouth, probably from crashing the [=RV=] into a [[WatchOutForThatTree tree]].
* ''Film/ClownKill'': After being fired, the janitor is so angry at Jenny that he punches her in the face hard enough that she spits out blood. He does the same to Nigel when he tries diffusing the situation.
* ''Film/ClownMotel'': Blood comes out of Chris' mouth after getting a windshield wiper jammed down his throat by a clown.
** Ian has blood coming out of his mouth from [[AnArmAndALeg getting his arms ripped off]], and then dying from falling against a rock.
* ''Film/{{Clownface}}'': Starting with Rick, people have blood coming out of their mouths when attacked by Clownface.
* ''Film/{{Cobb}}'': After discovering Al Stump's stash of personal-draft notes for the book, stopping himself from capping him in his sleep and finally proceeding to shoot himself in the mouth, old age starts catching up with Ty as he runs off to cough a ''bunch'' up all over the bathroom sink. Unable to clean it up, he leaves Al a note there ("You lying son of a bitch") saying he'd gone off to the hospital.
* ''Film/{{Cryptz}}'': One of the vampires has what's supposed to be blood coming out of his mouth when he's killed.
* In ''Film/TheDemoniacs'', Paul dies from dropping a giant glass carboy on his head. Before he dies, he coughs up blood that splatters on the inside of the glass.
* In ''Film/TheDeparted'' Frank Costello is gushing blood from his mouth just before he's killed.
* ''Film/Destroyer1988'': Ivan Moser has blood coming out of his mouth after his execution.
* In ''Film/TheDoctor'', Creator/WilliamHurt's title character coughs up blood while leaving a party. This turns out to be the first sign that he has cancer.
* Done in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005''. When the bad guy starts discovering his powers, he shoots someone straight through the chest with some kind of electric shock. The injury nowhere near the mouth, but the guy has a stream of blood tickling down his mouth before he collapses, obviously dead.
* ''Film/FightClub'':
** Naturally shows up a few times, given all the people getting beat across the mouth. Tyler makes particularly disgusting use of the effect to intimidate a guy. Also turned on its head in the case a bullet-hole in the cheek - does the blood still count if it's not actually come out of the "mouth"?
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] ([[{{Pun}} literally]]) with the Narrator's line, "You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick."
* One of Death's victims in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series starts spitting up blood when she's pulled into an escalator -- [[ArtisticLicenseBiology before it even]] [[NightmareRetardant reaches her knees]].
* In ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall'', when Peter finally completes his Dracula-puppet rock opera, the titular puppet dies at the end, complete with red silk blood from the mouth.
* Socko from ''Film/{{Freaked}}''. Despite being a mutant with a sock puppet covering a human hand for a head, he somehow manages to bleed from his 'mouth' as he lies dying from gunshot wounds.
* In ''Film/FruitvaleStation'', Oscar Grant sports this after being shot. Sure enough, the doctors reveal that he has been hit in the lung and that the damage is so severe that it had to be removed. This proves to be futile, as they are unable to stop his internal bleeding and he eventually dies.
* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': When Laurie saves one of [[DepravedDentist Dr. Suave]]'s victims, he has copious amounts of blood coming from his mouth as a result of the torture.
* Happens at times from the monsters in the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} films:
** ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters'': King Ghidorah
** ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'': Anguirus
** ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'': Godzilla
** ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII'': Rodan
** ''Film/GodzillaVsSpacegodzilla'': Space Godzilla
** ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'': Destoroyah
* In Creator/HerschellGordonLewis' ''Film/TheGoreGoreGirls'', a woman is chewing bubble gum, and is blowing a bubble, when she's bashed over the head with a mallet, and the inside of her bubble is sprayed with blood.
* In Wong-Kar Wai's last movie ''Film/TheGrandmaster'', Gong Er, played by Zhang Ziyi, spits blood on her white scarf.
* In ''Film/GranTorino'', Walt Kowalksi suffers from an unspecified, presumably deadly illness (implied to be lung cancer, given his smoking habit), and spits blood at regular intervals during the film.
* In ''Film/TheGreatHoudinis'', Harry coughs blood when a college student punches him before he has time to prepare himself. He later dies from his injuries.
* ''Film/TheGunman'' does a ridiculous take on this by having the protagonist periodically vomit blood – even though he is diagnosed with a form of traumatic injury to his ''brain''.
* In ''Film/GuyverDarkHero'', every Zoanoid does this before before dying at the hands of the Guyver.
%% * Happens multiple times in ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters''.
* ''Film/{{Hayride}}'': While the police are investigating a crime scene, one of them starts spontaneously bleeding from his mouth. Then it's revealed he was stabbed through from the back by a blade.
** ''Film/Hayride2'': Another cop has lots of blood coming out of his mouth when Ol' Pitchfork stabs him in the throat with his namesake.
* ''Film/HellInThePacific'': Kuroda dribbles blood from his mouth after the American stabs him from behind in an IndulgentFantasySegue.
* In ''Film/HeroicTrio'' almost every fight scene involves one or more fighters spitting up blood. The climax is definitely a repeat offender.
* In ''Film/HigherLearning'', a gunshot victim spits up blood. Sure enough, she rapidly dies.
* ''Film/HouseShark'': [[spoiler:Abraham]] starts bleeding from [[spoiler:his]] mouth when [[spoiler:the shark starts eating him]].
* ''Film/{{Hungerford}}'': When Adam is chatting up a girl at a party, blood spontaneously starts flowing out of her mouth.
* ''Film/IAmAlone'': After Jacob's been infected for about over two days, one of his teeth comes out (likely a result of him being infected), followed by quite a bit of blood.
** [[spoiler:At the end, after zombies breach the perimeter of the building he and Mason are in, the professor has blood coming out of his mouth by the time he returns to Mason.]]
* ''Film/{{Inception}}''. Saito is coughing blood as he's slowly dying during the dreams, including droplets floating from his mouth in zero-G during the GravityScrew scene in the hotel room.
* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'': As Quint gets munched on, blood dribbles from between his clenched teeth and down his chin.
* ''Film/JurassicPrey'': When the dinosaur attacks T-Bone, blood appears on and around his mouth.
* ''Film/KillBill'':
** A slight difference for Gogo: in her case, the blood comes from her ''eyes''.
** When The Bride finally fulfills the title, a mouthful of blood alerts Bill to his imminent demise.
* In ''Film/KingOfNewYork'', one of Frank White's men gets shot during the police raid and coughs up copious amounts of blood.
* In the movie ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' Perry is shot in the chest. Harry gives him a couple of breaths (he probably "learned" CPR from the movies), then pulls away and a stream of blood flows from the corner of Perry's mouth. He got better, though.
* In ''Film/TheKunoichiNinjaGirl'', a ridiculous amount of blood spills out of Higetsu's mouth after Kisaragi kicks him in the face. [[spoiler:Later Shinmu coughs up copious amounts of blood after the diseased man [[SlashedThroat slashes his throat with a katana]].]]
* Blood spurts from Dr. Frankenstein's mouth when he is crushed to death by the Monster in ''Film/LadyFrankenstein''.
* In ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife'', the establishing character moment for the bioterrorist/scientist villain [[LargeHam Jonathan Reiss]] is him in a private jet with his clients. He poisons one who [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves snitched on him]] to Interpol, intoning "this is the sound of a traitor dying" as he gurgles his last, bleeding profusely from his mouth.
* Used to show how badass a secondary character in ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' was. In the middle of the climactic battle Ujio is shot in the stomach by a soldier whom he kills after an appropriate stagger. Several other samurai come to help Ujio but he unceremoniously pushes them away, spits out a bright red spray of blood and goes on fighting. It takes the Gatling guns to finally finish him off.
* In ''Film/LawnDogs'', a man who quite frankly deserves it, is later seen bleeding from the mouth after getting shot in the back by Devon, the 10 year old heroine, who is trying to protect her friend Trent.
* ''Film/LittleDeadRottingHood'': A number of people who get attacked by wolves havve blood coming out of their mouths. Often the wolf bites are around the jugular, so this is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]].
* In ''Film/LizzieBordensRevenge'', Vanessa is trying to the others [[HisNameIs who the killer is]] when blood dribbles from her mouth and then she topples forward with Lizzie's axe in her back.
* In ''Film/LollyMadonnaXXX'', Elspeth bleeds from the mouth after she's shot. Later, Thrush does the same when [[spoiler:his father beats him to death]].
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** Boromir in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' has blood from the mouth when he gets shot by multiple arrows.
** After being impaled by Shelob in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'', Frodo starts frothing from the mouth before collapsing.
** Masterfully done in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]].'' Shots of Faramir leading a suicide mission are inter-cut with Denethor [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting casually]], and [[JabbaTableManners messily]] eating food. You see Orcs shoot a massive amount of arrows at the men of Gondor... and cut to red juice dribbling down Denethor's chin.
* In ''Film/MassacreAtCentralHigh'', blood comes from Paul's mouth as he crashes around the back of his runaway van.
* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', bleeding from the mouth signifies severe injury (i.e., falling off a building or taking a beating from an Agent) or death within the Matrix. Unplugging someone does not make them do this, which makes sense because [[JustifiedTrope it kills the mind, but does not cause physical harm]].
* In ''Film/Max2002'', the titular Jewish art dealer is severely beaten by some of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's new followers. The movie ends with him bleeding from the mouth as he lies dying in the snow.
* The opening scene from the Drivers' ed film ''Film/MechanizedDeath'' features a woman coughing up blood after an accident. Serious nightmare fuel.
* In ''Film/MoonChild'', Sho spits up blood when he is shot by Son. From the position of the bullet hole and difficult breathing, the bullet might have punctured his lung.
* Satine has this as a symptom of her dying in ''Film/MoulinRouge''. Justified since she's dying of tuberculosis and bloody mucus is one of the symptoms.
* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge'', a partygoer at Lisa's party bleeds from the mouth as he gets trampled to death by the other teens, who are trying to escape from Freddy.
* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonight'': Julek has blood coming out of his mouth near the end of the film after one of the twins may have [[TongueTrauma ripped his tongue out]].
** In [[Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII the sequel]], blood starts coming out of [[spoiler:Mariusz']] mouth when [[spoiler:Zosia drives her hand into his back and out his chest, [[AndShowItToYou holding his still beating heart]]]].
* In ''Film/TheOddAngryShot'', the soldier killed in the mortar barrage on the camp vomits a large quantity of blood on Bill when he tries to move him.
* ''Film/OuijaMummy'': Kyle has blood come from his mouth when [[spoiler:Ahotep the 1st lodges the ouija board in his throat]].
* ''Film/PaganWarrior'': Several victims of TheKrampus spout blood from their mouths after being stabbed. Additionally Ulbe co coughs up blood after Rollo [[KickThemWhileTheyareDown kicks him while he is down]].
* Used in the ForegoneConclusion beginning and ending of ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. Possibly [[DeadlyNosebleed Blood From The Nose]].
* In ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'', blood starts spurting from Torquemada's mouth as a result of Esmeralda's curse.
* In ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the title alien hunter coughs up blood (bright green, glowing blood, but still blood) as he activates his doomsday self-destruct device.
* ''Film/{{Pumpkins}}'': Starting with [[spoiler:Punter Dave]], a number of people stabbed by Pumpkin Man have blood come from their mouths.
* In the Bollywood film ''Rang de Basanti'', Aslam coughs up blood after he gets beaten up by the police at a demonstration. He gets better.
* ''Film/{{Rampant}}'': So-yong coughs up blood after being infected.
* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'': In her nightmare, Ruth sees UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper stabs Zack in the back and blood starts coming out his mouth.
* Found in ''Film/RedTails'' Lightning coughs up blood before his death.
* ''Film/ReturnOfTheScarecrow'': Jeffer has blood coming out of his mouth when [[ScaryScarecrow the scarecrow]] attacks and kills him.
* The father from ''Film/TheRoad'' coughs through most of the movie, but his fate becomes absolutely apparent when he coughs out a large amount of blood near the end.
* In ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}'', Mia is stabbed in the neck with a hunting knife and blood fountains from her mouth.
* In ''Film/SaintsAndSoldiers'', if a character is shot fatally, they get copious amounts of blood in the mouth before they die.
* ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer'': Blood spurts from Deputy Larry's mouth when he is killed; just before he falls in half.
* ''Film/{{Scarred}}'': A couple of Jonah Kandie's victims have blood coming from their mouths when they get attacked. [[spoiler:Steve spits some up while being carved up with a chainsaw.]]
* Played with in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''. Instead of bleeding from the mouth, people [[MoneySpider spit out coins.]] (The movie is styled as a living video game.)
* Happens frequently in slasher films, eg in ''Film/{{Scream 2}}'' when Phil is stabbed in the head.
* In ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' Buffalo Bill coughs up some blood right after Clarice shoots him.
* In the film ''Film/SilverStreak'', Ned Beatty's character is shot and dies talking to Creator/GeneWilder with blood coming from his mouth.
* In ''Film/SlaughterHigh'', one of the hallucinatory zombies vomits a large amount of blood.
* The short film series ''Film/{{Sockbaby}}'' did this [[SpecialEffectsFailure hilariously badly]]. Of course, that was [[{{Camp}} the whole point]].
* In the first ''Film/SpiderMan1'' movie starring Tobey Maguire, Norman Osborn coughs up blood after impaling himself with his own glider.
* In ''Film/StahlnetzPSI'', a German crime movie, a small girl is kidnapped for ransom and at some point hit in the face by one of the kidnappers. This is not directly presented as dangerous, but this signifies the danger of her situation.
* The lead characters in ''Film/TheSting'' have blood coming out of their mouths after a shooting at a racehorse betting counter. The blood, however, and the entire shooting [[ThePlan were all staged]], and the characters are perfectly fine and comfortably richer, too.
* In ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'', Dong-jin coughs up some blood after being repeatedly stabbed.
* Played straight then subverted in the Korean film ''Film/Thirst2009'', where a priest volunteers for an almost certainly fatal experiment. As the disease spreads throughout his body, he coughs a huge amount of blood over ([[{{Squick}} and through]]) the pipe that he had been playing. He dies shortly thereafter, but makes a miraculous recovery. Later on, he experiences a sudden resurgence and coughs blood again, but this time doesn't die...well, [[ViralTransformation not]] [[NotQuiteHuman technically]].
* In ''Film/ThreeExtremes'' a female character bleeds from the mouth right after she killed the offspring in her womb.
* True to history, Doc Holliday is coughing up blood due to his tuberculosis throughout his interview in ''Film/TombstoneRashomon''.
* In ''Film/ToWalkInvisible'', Branwell Brontë begins to vomit blood not long before he dies.
* Happens from time to time in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film franchise, such as with [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen The Fallen]] and [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction Lockdown]].
* In ''Film/TruthOrDare2012'', Blood gushes from [[spoiler:Chris's]] mouth after he fails the 'acid test'
* In the ''Film/{{Undisputed}}'' films, particularly the sequels, a shot of blood spewing from someone's mouth as he takes a huge shot to the chin, usually accompanied by the mouthguard flying out, seems to be an almost universal symbol that the fight is done, and the bleeder has lost. It rarely goes more than 30 seconds from that point.
* In ''Film/VampiresVsZombies'', blood gushes from Mary's mouth after Jenna shoves the amulet down her throat.
* ''Film/VarsityBlood'': When Vikki is shot through the best from behind with an arrow, she coughs a huge gout of blood into the face of Peter. Whom she is [[OutWithABang having sex with]] at the time.
* ''Film/{{Versus}}'' has this happen basically every time anybody takes a hit. By the end of the movie, they take it a step farther by making the hero's blood acidic.
* In ''Film/VerticalLimit'', two characters suffer from pulmonary edema (water forms inside the lungs) after getting trapped inside an icy cave. They cough up blood as a result.
* In ''Film/TheWickedLady'' (1945), Lady Barbara has a little blood coming from her mouth when Caroline finds her after she has been shot (probably a lung wound).
* ''Film/TheWidow2020'': Zoya has blood coming out of the side of her mouth after having a large amount of hay pulled out of it.
* In ''Film/WildAtHeart'', the girl they find at the roadside, victim of some car crash. Totally unjustified, but a clear signal of Lynch's playing with tropes, and most probably the most chilling instance of "Wicked Game" as background music, ever.
* One of the more squicky parts of the werewolf transformation in ''Film/TheWolfman2010''. What? You think those pointy teeth just poof into your mouth?! Might also possibly be from internal organs shifting around and what not...
* In ''Film/TheWomanInBlack'', a girl who drank lye suffers from a severe amount of of oral bleeding immediately before dying.
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Xavier bleeds profusely from his mouth on the astral plane, which means that his mind is dying.
* ''Film/YakuzaApocalypse'': The film makes abundant use of this trope in many of its action scenes.
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A subtrope of HesDeadJim.

See also: FirstBlood, SoapOperaDisease and IncurableCoughOfDeath. Saying ImColdSoCold is another very bad sign. Occasionally overlaps with DeadlyNosebleed.

A stream of blood trickling from the mouth is also shorthand for "I am a vampire" because vampires drink blood and have poor table manners.

'''As a DeathTrope, all spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

!!Examples:

** This happens so frequently that when a character hacks up blood, it's treated with about the same concern as if they just had the nonlethal, busted-lip variety. One notable instance was in the first Broly movie; blood is dripping down Broly's face, and he stares at his opponent... then abruptly smiles and licks it off, getting a fairly entertaining {{Squick}} reaction from Goku.

** When Frieza charges Goku at one point during their battle, Goku punches him right in his chest, causing him to vomit a big gob of blood, as a reminder of Goku's new-found Super Saiyan power.

** When Frieza charges Goku at one point during their battle, Goku punches him right in his chest, causing him to vomit a big gob of blood, as a reminder of Goku's new-found Super Sayian power.
** In the movie ''Bojack Unbound'', this happens to Bojack when Super Sayian 2 Gohan punches a hole straight through his stomach. In this case it's, if not a mortal wound (Future Trunks doing the same to one of his minions killed them instantly), then a severe one that likely would've killed him if he weren't so powerful.

* ''Fanfic/ANewHope'': Cloud coughs up blood during his first dinner at the Leonhart residence, Foreshadowing the discovery of his brain tumor.

* Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong:

* BloodFromTheMouth:

* ''Film/{{Scarred}}: A couple of Jonah Kandie's victims have blood coming from their mouths when they get attacked. [[spoiler:Steve spits some up while being carved up with a chainsaw.]]

** Resident IllGirl Chrome suffers from this whenever her illusionary organs give out. Immensely freakier in the manga where they actually ''show'' her coughing up quite a bit of blood.

** Over the course of the ''Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal'' OVA, one of Kenshin's allies (erstwhile boss, really) [[IllBoy Takasugi]] [[KnightInSourArmor Shinsaku]] coughs up blood regularly, and eventually dies of his illness while overlooking a battlefield. [[JustifiedTrope Completely justified]] in that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinsaku_Takasugi the actual historical figure the character is based on]] also died of tuberculosis before the end of the Meiji Restoration.

** However, in an unrelated poem titled, ''Beishang'', this is played straight with the titular IllGirl as a precoming to her death of terminal illness (the which is implied to have been brought on/worsened by despair). In, another poem, ''Visceral Needs'', it is unclear if this is literal or metaphorical, as the titular's feelings causes her to taste blood in her mouth and then it goes onto note how might as well be frothing it or bleeding to death, which leaves the question as to whether or not she's really bleeding or if she feels like she is. One could assume it to be the latter.

* Ukyo Tachibana from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' is an [[IllGirl Ill Boy]] with [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]], so once in a while he coughs up blood in his winning poses.